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This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on June 30, 2006. June 30 (Bloomberg) — Ballerinas in peril headline the final weeks of American Ballet Theatre’s current season at the Metropolitan Opera House. Before the company’s run ends on July 15, they’ll be continually menaced by death itself, and fates worse […]

This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on June 23, 2006. June 23 (Bloomberg) — Flamenco is intimate, essentially tragic. Practitioners have been trying forever to theatricalize the form for the commercial stage. But Rafael Amargo, a celebrated performer-director in his native Spain, may be the first to use flamenco as […]

This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on June 15, 2006. June 15 (Bloomberg) — American Ballet Theatre is concluding a week of “Giselles,” fielding no fewer than five ballerinas in the title role. Diana Vishneva, from the Kirov Ballet, plays the tragic heroine Saturday evening. The ballet has been going […]

This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on June 9, 2006. June 9 (Bloomberg) — The New York City Ballet’s Sunday matinee at the New York State Theater offers a small Balanchine gem featuring one of the company’s most precocious stars-in-the-making. George Balanchine’s 1972 Divertimento from “Le Baiser de la Fee” […]

This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on June 9, 2006. June 9 (Bloomberg) — Finally, some glitter! New York City Ballet’s Diamond Project, intended to stimulate the company’s dancers and its audience through new creations, had been a glum affair until last night’s premiere of the sixth of seven commissioned […]

This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on June 5, 2006. June 5 (Bloomberg) — Made for each other, the shy young woman and her awed princely partner can barely let their eyes meet, let alone allow their hands to touch. Yet in the space of a few minutes their hesitant […]

This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on June 1, 2006. June 1 (Bloomberg) — A pair of trim-bodied teenagers are dancing in a huge Lincoln Center studio rimmed with ballet barres. The petite, sweet-faced young woman zooms across the space like a plane on its runway and, airborne, flings herself […]

This article originally appeared in the Arts & Leisure section of the New York Times on May 28, 2006. I SEE Cinderella not only as a fairy-tale character but also as a real person, feeling, experiencing and moving among us,” Sergei Prokofiev has been quoted as writing of his score for the ballet “Cinderella.” Composed […]

This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on May 19, 2006. May 19 (Bloomberg) — What do you want to see at the ballet? High flyers and gyroscopic turners? Unforgettable characters embodying larger-than-life fates? Gorgeously honed bodies obeying the rules of classical dance with impeccable form? American Ballet Theatre will be […]

This article originally appeared in the Culture section of Bloomberg News on May 11, 2006. May 11 (Bloomberg) — Imagine entertaining a gala audience with a pair of new ballets set to music unfriendly to dancing. Inexplicably, this is what the New York City Ballet attempted last night with the premieres of contributions to its […]